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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

PURCHES MILES, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

cnTAIN-EIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. `15,615, dated August 26, 1856i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PURoHEs MILES, of the city of Hartford, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Con-` struction of Curtain-Fixtures; and I do hereby declare that the following is a correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the-letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the adaptation of a slide with levers and springs, to retain the rolling of the curtain.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The drawing Figure l is a front view of a curtain and fixtures. Fig. 2 is a side view.

Letter A the curtain, B guiding brackets, C cord spool, D the slide; E, levers; F, coiled springs; Gr, stationary cord for slide to work on; H, cord to operate on curtain; I, spool for the stationary cord G to take a turn on.

The roller, curtain and other parts Iconstruct in the usual manner. The brackets B B, are made thin edgewise the inner part being plain and broad so that the` curtain slides against them to guide and keep the curtain from swerving sidewise. The cord spool C is placed outside of the bracket B, allowing a clear space for the cord to work.

The slide, D, I make with two levers, E, E, to be operated on by the thumb and iinger which presses on them to relieve the pressure and friction caused by the two coiled springs F, F, on the side `of `the small spool, I. Around the spool I the stationary cord Gr is coiled to cause the same to revolve in the act ot rising or falling of the slide D, on the cord G. When the levers are not pressed the coiled springs F F press them y against the sides of the small spool I with just sutlicient torce and friction to prevent its rolling by the weight of the curtainand retain it in any desired position, and when relieved by pressing the levers E` E and leaves the curtain to work freely. The slide D when operated on slides up and down on the stationary cord, G, the moving cord II being attached to the same at one end and coils over the spool, C, at the other end to to secure by Letters Patent is- The levers E E, actuated. by the coiled springs, F, F, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein set forth and described.

PURCHES MILES. Witnesses:

WM. VINE, Jos. R. HAWLEY. 

